One of my favorite parts of Phish festivals are the From The Archives shows broadcast over each event’s radio station that feature amazing segments from the band’s archive. These programs, hosted by Phish archivist Kevin Shapiro, have been a staple of the group’s festivals since the first one – Clifford Ball. Since there’s no Phish festival this summer, I decided to put together a compilation of tracks I’d choose if I got to host an episode of From The Archives. I shared these choices with our pal KernelForbin who downloaded the segments from the Phish Spreadsheet and lovingly remastered them for the first installment of a compilation series we’ve dubbed “Faux The Archives.”
We’ll debut Faux The Archives – Volume 1 in ThePhish room on Turntable.FM starting at 2PM ET this afternoon. Once we’ve finished running through the tracks, I’ll update this post with a download link. For this installment I picked one segment from each year between 1993 and 2000. We start with The Man Who Stepped Into Mike’s Groove from February 4, 1993, complete with teases of Ween’s Push Th’ Little Daises, and continue with my all-time favorite Harry Hood – The Mahaffey Hood. Down With Disease -> Free from SPAC ’95 shows off the famed Summer ’95 jam style, while a version of The Wedge featuring Karl Perazzo breaks up the long improvisational segments. The no-doubter best Character Zero ever, from Hartford ’97, follows along with the unusual Squirming Coil -> Slave sequence that helped make Phish’s December 30, 1998 show special. We conclude with a pair of gems performed in Burgettstown, Penn. – the marvelous Simple -> My Left Toe from July 21, 1999 and the impressive Maze -> Shafty -> Maze from July 7, 2000.
Phish Faux The Archives – Volume 1
1993-02-04 – Mike’s Song > TMWSIY > Avenu Malkenu > TMWSIY > Weekapaug Groove (25:49)
1994-10-20 – Harry Hood (20:04)
1995-06-26 – Down With Disease -> Free (39:57)
1996-10-29 – The Wedge (05:03)
1997-11-26 – Character Zero (20:32)
1998-12-30 – Squirming Coil -> Slave to the Traffic Light (24:41)
1999-07-21 – Simple -> My Left Toe (26:04)
2000-07-07 – Maze -> Shafty -> Maze (15:04)
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